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The Stag of Love -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Literature and the Hunt -- Hunting Practice and Ceremony -- The Iconography of the Stag -- The Hunt as a Literary Structure -- II. The Chase in Medieval Narrative -- The Sacred Chase: Aelfric's Passion of St. Eustace -- The Mortal Chase: Siegfried's Death in the Nibelungenlied -- The Instructive Chase: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- III. The Love Chase -- Images of the Love Chase from Antiquity -- Ovid and the Middle Ages -- Combined Forms of the Love Chase in Medieval Literature

The Sacred Chase Transformed: Love and the Other WorldThe Mortal Chase Transformed: The Poet's Vision of the Death of the Hart -- The Instructive Chase Transformed: Love as the Latter End of Knowledge -- IV. Medieval Allegories of the Love Chase -- France: The Sanguinary Stag -- Li dis dou cerf amoreus : The Stag of Love -- L'Amoureuse Prise : Love's Capture -- Le dit du cerf blanc : The White Stag -- Germany: The Elusive Quarry -- Before Hadamar von Laber -- Hadamar von Laber: Die Jagd -- Epilogue: After Hadamar -- Germany -- Lyric Poems -- Altercative Poems

Didactic PoemsFrance -- La Chasse of Octovien de Saint-Gelais -- England and France: Song, Sonnet, and Metaphor -- Index

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